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The main methods for the simplification of the NMR of complex mixtures by selective attenuation/suppression of the signals of certain components are presented. The application of relaxation, diffusion and PSR filters and other techniques to biological samples, pharmaceuticals, foods, living organism...
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PMID: 20936238
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Naturally-occurring nitro compounds display great structural diversity, and a wide range of biological activities. This review summarizes current information on the structures of naturally-occurring nitro compounds and on the biosynthesis of the nitro group.
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PMID: 21127810
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A review with 187 references, describing natural products that exhibit bioactive properties relevant to the treatment of protein aggregation-related neurodegenerative diseases (e.g., Huntington's, Parkinson's, and prion diseases) and comparing the chemical properties of these secondary metabolite le...
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PMID: 20927454
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This review will detail the motivations, experimental approaches, and growing list of successful cases associated with the heterologous production of complex natural products.
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PMID: 21060956
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This review focuses on recent developments in the use of natural products as therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease. The compounds span a diverse array of structural classes and are organized according to their mechanism of action, with the focus primarily on the major hypotheses. Overall, the review...
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PMID: 21072430
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This book of the Seton Hall Law Review presents the contributions to Follow-On Biologics: Implementation Challenges and Opportunities, a one-day roundtable event hosted by Seton Hall University School of Law in the fall of 2010. The roundtable fostered an international dialogue regarding the future o...
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PMID: 21739728
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A wide range of 5-substituted thiazoles are easily accessible via cross coupling of thiazolyl triflates. These activated thiazoles can be obtained by Ugi reactions using thioacids (thio-Ugi-reaction) and subsequent cyclisation of the endo thiopeptides formed with triflic anhydride. In addition, cycl...
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PMID: 20927467
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Synthesis of cyclopenta[b]pyrane derivatives via Achmatowicz oxidative cyclization of furanols followed by intramolecular Knoevenagel condensation of the β-ketoester arm is examined. The extent of diastereoselectivity was dependent on the nature of the chiral atom within the tethering carbon of the...
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PMID: 20856942
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The synthesis of 3a-substituted hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole derivatives via nucleophilic substitution at the C3a position is reported. Nitrogen-, oxygen-, sulfur-, fluoro- and carbon-based nucleophiles have been employed, using both conventional organic solvents and ionic liquids. The C3a-substitu...
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PMID: 20856944
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We review also the possibilities by loss of efficacy of an anti-TNF therapy, such as dose increase or re-induction therapy.
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PMID: 21046532
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Market exclusivity given to biologics puts burdens on healthcare and new development.
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PMID: 21031566
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Synthetic studies directed toward the allenediyne antibiotic marasin are presented. Different approaches to the installation of the optically active chiral allenediyne motif were explored en route to the synthesis of the natural product. The stereoselectivity for the construction of the chiral allen...
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PMID: 20725668
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Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) affect mainly younger people. Biologic therapies are safe and effective in inducing and maintain remission in that patients. We reviewed herein the current knowledge about the safety and the effectiveness of biologic therapies in managing pregnant IBD patients.
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PMID: 21137576
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We paid an attention to inhibitors against three enzymes, ubiquitin-activating enzyme (E1), ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2), and ubiquitin-protein ligase (E3), which are required for polyubiquitination of proteins and prerequisite to proteasome-mediated protein degradation. We succeeded in isolati...
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PMID: 20930478
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A convenient semi-synthesis of (8R,8'R)-matairesinol 4,4'-di-O-beta-d-glucopyranoside (MDG), found in the stems of Trachelospermum asiaticum var. intermedium, is described starting from the readily available starting materials d-glucose and hydroxymatairesinol. By this approach the synthesis of MDG...
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PMID: 20655039
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We conclude that improvements in lung mechanics, gas exchange, and changes in CBF are comparable for a porcine-derived and peptide-containing synthetic surfactant, despite instilled volumes differing by 2-fold. Intrapulmonary distribution of surfactant is more uniform after a larger volume is instil...
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PMID: 20531255
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Natural products have been the source of many drugs used in modern therapeutics, and particularly in the case of anticancer drugs, more than 50 % originally came from natural products. Their importance as a source of leads for new drugs therefore cannot be underestimated. However, due to the painsta...
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PMID: 20486069
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We present a concept, which takes advantage of methods of molecular diagnostics to identify predictive markers at the DNA, mRNA, and protein levels. Markers with prognostic value concerning treatment response and patient survival can then be used as targets to develop optimized drugs. We focus on th...
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PMID: 20486071
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Recently, inhibitors of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), such as erlotinib, gefitinib, cetuximab or panitumumab, have been successfully established in the therapy of a variety of solid tumors. Cutaneous adverse effects are the most frequent side-effects of these so-called targeted cancer...
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PMID: 20628713
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Partially hydrolyzed extracts from blood meal, feather meal, and meat and bone meal, as well as a variety of common surplus agricultural proteins were tested for their ability to promote the flocculation of clay. Partial alkaline or enzymatic hydrolyses of blood meal, feather meal, and meat and bone...
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PMID: 20236820
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We demonstrated, using a murine colon cancer model, that yoghurt consumption inhibited tumour growth by decreasing the inflammatory response by increasing IL-10-secreting cells, cellular apoptosis and diminishing procarcinogenic enzymes. Milk fermented with Lactobacillus helveticus R389 delayed brea...
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PMID: 20550747
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Commensal bacteria are important in intestinal homeostasis and appear to play a role in early tolerance to foreign antigens. The requirement for homeostatic balance between tolerance and immunity poses a unique regulatory challenge to mucosal immune systems. Dysregulation of this balance can contrib...
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PMID: 20416121
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We prospectively assessed all data from RA patients who underwent in-patient treatment for septic complications in the 3-year period from 01.01.2006 to 31.12.2009. All disease- and infection-specific data were gathered and analysed.
Of the 36 cases in total, infection was localized in the rheumatoid...
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PMID: 20632179
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We performed a Medline search for the period 2005 to March 2010, including the MeSH terms "SoJIA", "systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis" and"biologicals", as well as an NIH study registry search. At Present there are scant and unconvincing data on the use of Etanercept or Adalimumab for the treat...
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PMID: 20668866
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In recent years, many peptide- and protein-based biotherapeutics have been approved for subcutaneous (SC) delivery. The mechanisms and factors affecting the uptake and distribution of such large molecules following SC administration are not well understood. This review outlines the factors influenci...
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PMID: 20677097
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We identified residents aged > or = 20 years who had received a diagnosis of RA at least twice during 2003-08. Valid point prevalence estimates by 31 December 2008 were obtained by linkage to the Swedish population register, and information on biological treatment was obtained from the South Swedish...
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PMID: 20444855
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We searched PubMed and identified 98 papers describing 116 studies (23 randomized) reporting on the effect of various systemic combination treatments. The most thoroughly investigated combination was retinoid and phototherapy. Further controlled research is needed to define the safest and most effec...
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PMID: 20574597
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Since the middle of 1990s, the development of combinatorial chemistry along with the high throughput screening have led to some lack of interest for natural products from the pharmaceutical industry. Moreover, purification and optimization of natural compounds are very often difficult and animal exp...
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PMID: 20637355
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The transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NFkappaB) is found in nearly all animal cell types. It is involved in cellular responses to stimuli such as stress, cytokines, free radicals, ultraviolet irradiation, oxidized LDL and microbial antigens, and has been shown to regulate the expression o...
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PMID: 20577970
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The Developmental Therapeutics Program (DTP) of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), at its NCI-Frederick facility, has built perhaps the largest and most diverse natural products screening library in the world for drug discovery. Composed of plant, marine organism and microbial extracts, it cu...
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PMID: 20657375
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We investigated the use of an "explorative solid-phase extraction" (E-SPE) protocol using SAX, Oasis MAX, SCX, and LH-20 columns for targeted exploitation of chemical functionalities. E-SPE provides a minimum of fractions (15) for chemical and biological analyses and implicates development into a pr...
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PMID: 20509666
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Charles Lu,
J Jack Lee,
Ritsuko Komaki,
Roy S Herbst,
Lei Feng,
William K Evans,
Hak Choy,
Pierre Desjardins,
Benjamin T Esparaz,
Mylene T Truong,
Scott Saxman,
Joseph Kelaghan,
Archie Bleyer and
Michael J Fisch
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I and II clinical trials. Our objective was to determine the effect of adding AE-941 to chemoradiotherapy on overall survival of patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, phase III clinical trial was designed to...
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PMID: 20505152
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The rates of incident malignancy were 25.3 events/1,000 person-years in the anti-TNF cohort and 38.3/1,000 person-years in the DMARD cohort, generating an age- and sex-adjusted incidence rate ratio of 0.58 (95% confidence interval 0.23-1.43) for the anti-TNF-treated cohort compared with the DMARD co...
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PMID: 20535785
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The PS-based pooling method offered strong protection of patient privacy and a reasonable balance between analytic integrity and flexibility of study execution. We would recommend its use in other studies that require pooling of databases, multivariate adjustment, and privacy protection....
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PMID: 20473213
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The lipoteichoic acid (LTA) of the Streptococcus species DSM 8747 consists of a beta-d-galactofuranosyl diacylglycerol moiety (with different acyl groups) that is linked via 6-O to a poly(glycerophosphate) backbone; about 30% of the glycerophosphate moieties carry at 2-O hydrolytically labile d-alan...
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PMID: 20510791
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Available treatments for many infectious diseases are limited. In particular, diseases caused by viral pathogens have demonstrated the need for new medicines, due to the increasing appearance of resistance to these available treatments. Thousands of novel compounds have been isolated from various ma...
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PMID: 20338196
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RNA silencing has been adopted to develop virus-resistant plants through expression of virus-derived hairpin RNAs. Due to the high sequence specificity of RNA silencing, this technology has been limited to the targeting of single viruses. Simultaneous targeting of multiple viruses or plant genes can...
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PMID: 20307576
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We have determined the experimental logP values of a set of 25 lamellarins, given it is the single most important parameter in determining multiple ADMET parameters. We also discuss the relationship between this natural product class, natural product derivatives in development and on the market, ora...
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PMID: 20167395
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We conclude that although UVGI is microbiocidal, it is not "ready for prime time" as a primary intervention to kill or inactivate infectious microorganisms; rather, it should be considered an adjunct. Other factors, such as careful design of the built environment, installation and effective operatio...
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PMID: 20569852
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The actinobacteria of the genus Streptomyces are of immense importance to both ecological and human welfare. They produce a large number of enzymes and compounds such as antibiotics that have attracted the interest of industry over recent decades, resulting in their commercial manufacture and applic...
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PMID: 20372697
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These results demonstrate that extraction of DNA from processed animal protein is different for pure ingredients and fortified animal feeds. These results indicate that a method specifically developed using just animal-derived meat and bone meal may not yield a functional assay when used to detect a...
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PMID: 20537265
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